Executive Summary
Today’s show was one of those mornings where the whole picture came into focus. A federal judge just ruled that the FBI gets to keep the thousands of 2020 ballots seized from the Fulton County warehouse in Atlanta. Marc Elias and Mary McCord — two of the four most consequential lawfare operatives in this country — have essentially no documented past. The Senate Intelligence Committee is still awaiting answers from FBI headquarters explaining why former Director Mueller never extradited the 9/11 hijacker handler Omar al-Bayoumi from the United Kingdom.
We covered the rise of Mamdani’s “fair share” New York City — partnered with Progressive International, the global network co-founded in 2018 by John Podesta’s Center for American Progress and the Sanders Institute. We covered Director Ratcliffe’s confirmation that it was China — not Russia — meddling in our elections, and that whistleblowers were instructed to alter the evidence. We covered the Supreme Court smacking down the New Jersey attorney general’s lawfare against First Choice Women’s Resource Center, a pro-life ministry that has served pregnant women since 1985. We covered the Court of Appeals striking down the Biden FCC’s race-based digital equity rules — a major Brendan Carr win.
And we connected it all back to a single, urgent question: who rules? Because if it isn’t We the People, the republic is already lost. The good news: it isn’t lost. The receipts are landing. The architects are losing ground. And the antidote to suicidal empathy is informed, courageous, faithful action.
Scroll to the bottom for Key Takeaways.
The 9/11 Cover-Up the Senate Won’t Let Die
Let me start with the story the legacy media will not touch. The Senate Intelligence Committee is still awaiting answers from FBI headquarters explaining why former Director Mueller failed to ask British authorities for the extradition of Omar al-Bayoumi.
Al-Bayoumi was a Saudi intelligence agent. He was a 9/11 hijacker handler. When agents searched his Birmingham flat, they found a video of a Shaheed banquet he held for two of the Pentagon hijackers, a notepad with a sketch of an airplane and the descent-rate equation into the Pentagon, and a tape of him scouting the US Capitol as a fourth target.
The FBI withheld every piece of that evidence from the 9/11 Commission. All of it.
President Trump said in 2016 he didn’t believe the official 9/11 story and wanted to get to the bottom of it. The investigative commission is now active. And here’s the part that should make every American sit up: John Brennan was the CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia before he became director under Obama.
The Lawfare Operatives Who Have No Past
Marc Elias has no documented past. I’m not exaggerating — go try to find one. ChatGPT comes back blank. Public records come back blank. No upbringing, no childhood, no biography before he surfaces as a Perkins Coie partner with the keys to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
Mary McCord has the same gap. The two of them, along with Norm Eisen and a small handful of others, sit at the top of the lawfare apparatus that has done more damage to American constitutional order in the last decade than any foreign adversary.
Elias hired Fusion GPS. Elias hired Christopher Steele. The fake dossier that Steele produced was given to Brennan, who knew it was fake, who handed it to Obama, who used it to write a fraudulent Intelligence Community Assessment, which opened Crossfire Hurricane, which has metastasized into the lawfare campaign that has been running against half this country ever since.
George Soros gave at least $5 million to Marc Elias and his firm in 2016. The Elias Law Group calls itself an election integrity practice — it is the legal infrastructure of one-party rule.
The 2020 Fulton County Ballots and the AME Church Question
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the government can retain thousands of 2020 election ballots from Georgia’s Fulton County. The FBI seized them from a warehouse in Atlanta. Investigators want the names of every single person who worked the count that night.
We all watched it happen in real time. The water main “broke” — except it didn’t. Counting stopped. Hours later, suitcases full of ballots came out from under the tables and went into the machines.
There are dozens of witness affidavits in the record that have never been taken seriously. Witnesses described ballot images missing or modified. Witnesses described problems with tabulated tapes. Witnesses described chain-of-custody violations that broke the rules. And the same day Joe Biden gave a presidential medal to Ruby Freeman and her daughter, he gave one to George Soros and Hillary Clinton.
The Michelle Obama AME Church ballot operation has not been exposed yet. I believe it will be.
NYC, Mamdani, and the Global Communism Tell
What is happening in New York City is terrifying — and it is not a local story. The Democrat Socialists of America are operational partners with Progressive International, founded in 2018 on suggestions from the Sanders Institute and the Democracy in Europe Movement.
At Progressive International’s convenings, Tim Walz spoke. Chris Murphy spoke. Hillary Clinton spoke. Mamdani spoke remotely. Bernie Sanders’ wife co-founded it with John Podesta’s Center for American Progress.
Their published platform: a decolonized, post-capitalist world. Energy free of conventional fuels. The abolition of “the cult of work.” Eradication of poverty through “shared abundance.” Regional governance where mayors hold more power than presidents. This is communism — read their own documents.
Mamdani filmed a campaign video outside Ken Griffin’s house. Griffin is the CEO of Citadel. He employs thousands of New Yorkers. The DSA put a target on his back on a paid commercial. This is French Revolution rhetoric.
The proposed NYC death tax confiscates estates above $750,000. The federal estate tax kicks in at $15 million. Mamdani’s structure makes sure the city collects first — every middle-class home in the boroughs becomes a tax-the-rich target on the way to the grave.
The “Fair Share” Tell
Mamdani’s “fair share” framing — corporations should “pay a little more” so families can stay — is a familiar package. The end goal is the European socialism playbook. Universal childcare. Universal healthcare run by the government. The Congressional Progressive Caucus has nearly 100 members ready to coalesce around it.
The Wins Most Americans Haven’t Heard About
Here is the part the legacy media will not give you. We are winning ground.
The FCC ruling. The Court of Appeals struck down the Biden FCC’s digital equity rules — regulations that would have forced broadband providers to discriminate on the basis of race and gender. Brendan Carr dissented in 2023. He was right. The Supreme Court has now made it clear that race-based regulation by the federal government is unconstitutional.
The pro-life ministry. The Supreme Court smacked down New Jersey AG Matthew Platkin’s “reproductive rights strike force.” Platkin came after First Choice Women’s Resource Center — a ministry open since 1985 — without a complaint, without a violation, simply because the ministry offered an alternative to abortion. The Court said no.
The MacArthur Park bust. The DOJ executed federal arrest and search warrants in MacArthur Park, taking 40 pounds of fentanyl off the streets in one operation. Eighteen defendants charged, including two law enforcement.
The insider trading bust. The FBI charged 30 individuals in a global insider trading scheme that stole material non-public information from leading corporate law firms. Tens of millions of dollars in illicit profits. Decade-long network. Real accountability for the white-collar criminal class.
The China truth. Director Ratcliffe confirmed that the spy agencies created a false impression that Russia sought to influence the election when the actual threat was China. Whistleblowers were instructed to alter evidence. The President and Congress were intentionally kept in the dark.
The Empowerment Pivot — We the People Are the Answer
If you take one thing away from today, take this. The architects of the managed political order are losing ground because the receipts are finally landing. That is not happening on its own. That is happening because patriots like you are showing up, asking questions, supporting truth-tellers, supporting local pregnancy ministries, showing up at school board meetings, withdrawing consent from the conflict-and-chaos economy.
Knowledge. Understanding. Courage. Action. The four pillars hold.
The covenant we entered with our Founders is older than every single name on the dossier list. The Bill of Rights is older than the lawfare. The Constitution is older than Progressive International. The republic was designed to outlast the people trying to break it — but only if We the People keep doing our part.
Key Takeaways
- The Senate Intel Committee is still awaiting FBI answers on Mueller’s failure to extradite 9/11 handler Omar al-Bayoumi.
- Marc Elias and Mary McCord — two of the four top lawfare operatives — have essentially no documented past.
- A federal judge ruled the FBI can retain thousands of 2020 Fulton County ballots seized from the Atlanta warehouse.
- Progressive International, founded in 2018 by Podesta’s CAP and the Sanders Institute, is the parent network for the Mamdani-DSA program in New York.
- The Court of Appeals struck down the Biden FCC’s race-based digital equity rules — a major Brendan Carr win.
- The Supreme Court rejected the New Jersey AG’s lawfare against First Choice Women’s Resource Center, open since 1985.
- Director Ratcliffe confirmed it was China — not Russia — meddling in our elections, with whistleblowers told to alter the evidence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does it matter that Marc Elias has no documented past? Because two of the four most consequential lawfare operatives in America surfaced fully formed at the top of the political-legal apparatus. That is not normal. That is not how careers work. When the people running a coup against a duly elected president have no archive, We the People deserve to ask why.
Is the FBI really going to release what’s in the Fulton County ballots? A federal judge has now ruled that the FBI can keep them. Investigators are asking for the names of every person who counted ballots that night. The dozens of witness affidavits that were ignored in 2020 are back on the table. The lid is coming off — slowly, lawfully, and with the receipts.
How is Progressive International different from other progressive groups? Progressive International is explicitly transnational. Its published platform calls for the end of nation-states, regional governance through mayors, the abolition of “the cult of work,” and a post-capitalist global system. The DSA in the United States operates as the domestic partner. Mamdani’s New York City agenda is the implementation.
What can ordinary citizens do right now? Get informed. Build your platoon. Support your local pregnancy ministry, your local food bank, your local independent journalist. Withdraw consent from the conflict-and-chaos economy. Show up at school board meetings. Vote in primaries. Talk to one neighbor a week. We the People are the answer — we always have been.
Is this addiction-to-chaos framing literal? It is literal. Our political class profits from manufactured crisis. The lawfare shops, the NGO ecosystem, the legacy media — they all need a steady supply of outrage to justify their funding. The Twelve-Step framework applies: admit the addiction, withdraw consent, build a recovery community, take action.
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